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Nice read. Thanks.

Ok I'll wait at least two weeks.thanks. I'm using a carboy with a plug. Idk if it's leaking but I do know what you mean abt bucket lids. If I use a bucket, most of time airlock doesn't even move.

So tonight was basically the 3rd night on this ferment. I'm seeing a drastic reduction in airlock activity. Going to wait to Saturday before testing gravity which will be one week. What do I do if gravity has lowered already to the 1.010? Do you leave it in primary for at least 2 weeks regardless ?

Ok so 2 to 3 weeks for primary is ok? I was wanting to get it out of plastic as soon as I can. Ok. That works for me

Hmm, now what if my primary is a plastic carboy? It's all I have for now. Just ordered the first of what I'm sure is more glass 5 gallon. So the beer is in a plastic 5 gal carboy.

Can anyone tell me the proper protocol on beer? My plan was week in primary, 2 weeks secondary and two weeks in bottle before trying. (2wks carb). Preferably 2 weeks posy carbing. So 4 weeks in bottle before consuming. Although I know I'll be trying it out at 2 weeks

Wondering now if my wine was the same issue. How do you remedy that? Shake it up, wait and shake up again and wait before testing? Give it some time to mix well??

Is that right?? I never would have thought that. You're telling me that when I added the wort to the water in the carboy then topped off; even though I shook the carboy up, the heavy extract doesn't mix well? And you can get a false reading? If that's what happened what's the true reading now...

I was shy of using a full 5 gal of water not counting kit ingredients. Basically I have a 6 gal carboy. So I put 1 gal of wate in there. Put 2 gallon in the pot, cooked ingredients as directed. That's 3. Added 1 more. That's 4. Added abt half of the 5th gallon. Shook it, took sample. Waited for...

I shook it well multiple times. Well, have to wait and see

Not happy I didn't end up with a over 5 gal water added but less. Couldn't validate adding more water due to struggling to hit the gravity and I wasn't going to keep adding sugar either. Think that added half lb will alter the flavor so much it won't be anything like stout. Not to happy on...

Did the stout kit. Followed the directions. Now I found it a bit difficult to maintain that 155f while steeping. Temps was about 159 when I put the grain bag in and I kept taking the pot off the eye and putting it on when temp would fall a bit down past 155. There for a while it held 155 off...

When the instructions sat 'for 5 gallon' is that water only? Meaning make sure I put 5 gallon of water in there. Bc I've been seeing how the sugar with wine or the extract here is adding a lot of volume. So I'm curious if I should just be topping off to the 5 gal mark OR adding a total of 5...

Guess I was just confused with using all grain vs the extract. But it makes sense. First time with beer so I want to get a few kits under my belt before venturing out further. Plan on starting saturday. Will keep this thread updated on progress

So what's the verdict? I was going to let them soak in star san while bottling. I like the 'just spray them" approach. The star san doesn't taint the flavor of the wine??

Makes sense. Thanks

Ok will do. So don't worry abt steeping for 60 min instead of 30?

So I got a kit with pre mixed grain and malt liquid extract, hops and yeast. Mt question here is that the instructions say to steep the grains for 10 to 30 minutes. But I thought you want to give it a good hour?? Should I do the full hour or just follow directions? And it says to throw the...

How long you let it sit in secondary? I was planning 30 days then rack to a third then another 30 days before bottling

What yeast are you using with this?